Crossword clues for disown
disown
- Repudiate
- Refuse to acknowledge responsibility for
- Renounce, as a family member
- Cast off
- Wash one's hands of
- Row about pig - say it isn't yours
- Repudiate, cast off
- Reject is into drink
- Reject half of meal featuring pig
- Refuse to acknowledge row about farm animal
- Refuse to accept broadcast restricted by noise
- Blue dressing is cut off
- Deny row about broadcast
- Turn your back on litter-dropper during row
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Disown \Dis*own"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Disowned; p. pr. & vb. n. Disowning.]
To refuse to own or acknowledge as belonging to one's self; to disavow or deny, as connected with one's self personally; as, a parent can hardly disown his child; an author will sometimes disown his writings.
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To refuse to acknowledge or allow; to deny.
Then they, who brother's better claim disown, Expel their parents, and usurp the throne.
--Dryden.Syn: To disavow; disclaim; deny; abnegate; renounce; disallow.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
vb. To refuse to own or to refuse to acknowledge one’s own.
WordNet
v. prevent deliberately (as by making a will) from inheriting [syn: disinherit] [ant: bequeath]
Wikipedia
Disown is a four-piece Industrial rock band originally from Cleveland, Ohio.
Along with guitar riffs and stabbing electronic synths similar to Nine Inch Nails or Linkin Park, Disown adds an arrangement of melodic, emotional lyrics similar to A Perfect Circle or Tool.
Formed in 2000, Disown has shared the stage with HIM, Atreyu, Lacuna Coil, Static-X, Orgy, Godhead, Crossbreed, Mushroomhead, Trust Company, KMFDM and The Apex Theory.
The original lineup consisted of Jae Rohrer on vocals and guitar, Mitch Langford on guitar and sequencing, Jesse Rohrer on bass, and Gerry Lakarosky on drums.
In 2004, Disown appeared in an article of the Daily Kent Stater written by Mark Bodkin documenting the recording process of their first release "Angels and Atheists." Later that same year, they traveled to the Recording Workshop in Chillicothe, Ohio to demo three songs with Eric Rickey that would later appear on "Requiem of One." That same year, Disown replaced drummer, Gerry Lakarosky with Scott Kaczmarek.
In 2005, Disown secured a spot on the OzzFest 2004 tour performing in front of more than 30,000 people.
In 2005, the band secured business with Cleopatra Records and had their single, "Policy of Truth" placed on a tribute to Depeche Mode.
In 2006, Disown began their east coast tour of 13 states and 39 cities. The band acquired new bassist, Krystle Carter and guitarist Mikal. The band continued to open for several huge National Acts. As well, Disown was named Top 20 best artist on Myspace and selected for a chance to place a track on Vivendi/Universal's upcoming PC game, Scarface: The World Is Yours.
In 2007, Jae Rohrer began working on Disown's 3rd full-length Album entitled "Grave New World". Disown received sponsorship by SamAsh and endorsements from Halo Guitars. The band was also nominated for Best Goth/Industrial Act 3 years in a row by the Cleveland Free Times.
In 2008, tragedy struck on March 4, as their guitarist, Mikal, was involved in a fatal car accident in Michigan, and died on March 6, 2008. Mikal's funeral was held on March 11. The band members refused to comment on the situation
2009 - the band has been in under the radar since, taking a break to recover from things and, perhaps enjoy life a bit.
2010, the band's music, specifically the track Medicinal, is set to appear as one of the tracks shipped with APB by Realtime Worlds. It is unclear whether this track was handpicked by the developers or submitted by the band via the Artist Program.
In the Unix shells ksh, bash and zsh, the disown builtin command is used to remove jobs from the job table, or to mark jobs so that a SIGHUP signal is not sent to them if the parent shell receives it (e.g. if the user logs out).
Usage examples of "disown".
Disowned by her family, she and Papa had retired to the estate in Chantilly and lived a quiet, happy life.
He would be stricken from the Cheng records, disowned by his father and relatives, and cast aside without family connections or recourse.
Once marry, and you join the noble army of foot-pads, leeches, vultures, paupers, gone coons, and babblers about brats--and I disown you.
Oft has your prophet, for reward of toil, Seen nests of seeming cockatrices coil: Disowned them as the unholiest of Time, Which were his offspring, born of flame on slime.
But look thou here, and as thou knowest or disownest this token, so obey or refuse her commands who hath deigned to impose them on thee.
Jaunty had said it, and Lester Maddocks, and now Signor Andreini disowning all responsibility for the actions of Lance Corporal Sweeting -was taking up the all too familiar melody.
A man whose name I have forgotten--a great lover of notoriety--appropriated the following verses by the younger Crebellon and went to the Bastille rather than disown them.
Whoever introduces new laws, not being thereunto authorised, by the fundamental appointment of the society, or subverts the old, disowns and overturns the power by which they were made, and so sets up a new legislative.
But she had disowned her Master, desiring to be mistress of her own lust, taking all things to herself to feed her emptiness.
Talena, once the beautiful daughter of a great Ubar, shamed and disowned, was now nothing.
I hoped the others would honor him for it, but instead his master disowned him and he hanged himself.
If a father's dying curse held any power, he was as disowned as Donkerri, or as Kindrie, for that matter.
He dreamed that he again stood shivering by the fire in the Highlord's tower quarters after his grandfather had disowned him.
They both knew that Donkerri had been disowned and was almost certainly lying.
A fine time this would be to learn that his father's curse actually had taken effect, that he really was disowned and not the rightful Highlord after all.